Add Your Email Address to Your RSS Feed

I want to make a suggestion: Please add your email address to your RSS feed.

You see, Daniel has implemented a simple yet powerful feature in his feed reader FeedCity (which I’ve been using for a couple of months now):

He has added an email link below every feed item, which makes it incredibly easy to reply to any post.

This is remarkably convenient and has become second nature once I got used to it. (I think all feed readers should have this feature!)

The only downside right now: Not that many people include their email address in their feeds’ markup. Which is a bummer!

So therefore, below, I compiled two examples of how to add your email address to your feed:

Atom feed

<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
Your Blog
<author>
<name>Your Name</name>
<email>hello@your-blog.tld</email>
</author>

More info in the Atom docs under recommended feed elements and Person.

RSS Feed

<channel>
Your Blog
<managingEditor>hello@your-blog.tld</managingEditor>

More info in the RSS docs about managingEditor.

It is also possible to add the author information to every feed item (post), which is the way to go if your blog has more than one author. (Check the aforementioned docs for how to implement that.)

Using WordPress?

The best One way is probably to overwrite the feed templates. Update: The most convenient way is to just use the RSS reply via email plugin.

If your blog has a feed, I’d be very happy if you’d make it easy for me to reply to your posts by adding your email address. 💌